{"id":15996,"date":"2021-01-05T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/\/2021\/01\/05\/brucella-orchitis-confused-with-testicular-tumor\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:24:31","slug":"brucella-orchitis-confused-with-testicular-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/2021\/01\/05\/brucella-orchitis-confused-with-testicular-tumor\/","title":{"rendered":"Brucella Orchitis Confused with Testicular Tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Abstract<\/h1>\n<p> Genitourinary involvement is observed in approximately 2-20% of brucellosis cases and epididymo-orchitis is the most common form. It may imitate a tumor by causing a painless mass. A 20-year-old male was admitted to the hospital with a history of a painless testicular mass for one month. Scrotal Doppler ultrasonography revealed a nodular lesion in the right testis with indistinct margins, not completely distinguishable from tumor. Testicular tumor could not be excluded by radical inguinal orchiectomy. Non-necrotizing granulomatous orchitis was reported following a wide-range of histochemical investigation for differential diagnosis of lymphoma. After a Brucella tube agglutination test was found positive at 1\/640 titer, a combination of doxycycline and rifampin was started. Brucellosis should be taken into consideration in differential diagnosis of nonspecific granulomatous orchitis in endemic regions, and particularly in cases in which a painless testicular mass with negative tumor markers is identified.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Genitourinary involvement is observed in approximately 2-20% of brucellosis cases and epididymo-orchitis is the most common form. It may imitate a tumor by causing a painless mass. A 20-year-old male was admitted to the hospital with a history of a painless testicular mass for one month. Scrotal Doppler ultrasonography revealed a nodular lesion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[2822,4259,4256,4257],"class_list":["post-15996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-report","tag-brocellosis","tag-neoplasms","tag-orchitis","tag-testis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}